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Generate webassemby binary with DWARF information

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by reviewing Binaryen's documentation and existing WebAssembly output guidance for DWARF information, then check how the generated data is consumed by the stated LLDB-supported runtime. Done should be a documented, reproducible procedure for generating a WebAssembly binary with DWARF source-debugging information.

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Description

hi, Binaryen,

I am writting a new compiler for a new language, my attention is use binaryen to generate the backend code and use open source Webassembly runtime to run it.

I want to support function of "debugging the source code", this runtime only support debug via lldb with DWARF.

I didn't see any document introduce how to do it. does anyone know how to do it?

Thank you.

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